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<blockquote data-quote="ItalianStallion9" data-source="post: 1491143" data-attributes="member: 13962">The older I've gotten the less I've approved of it. While I wonder why we targeted civilians, my viewpoint is that it seemed to be more of a statement; the allied powers wanted to see a white flag waived.If our goal is to make sure all enemies surrender, why are we foolin' around with North Korea. Why not just nuke them?We had the power to nuke Japan at the time, with little consequences (ie: china/russia lashback), and we wanted to make a statement of power victory. It appears evident that Germany and Italy were out of the war...so Japan was some little island by themselves. Was it really necessary to drop nukes on them at this point? It's simliar to modern day North Korea at this point.That being said, I've heard and agree with some of the points for nuking. Many wanted the war to be officially over, it *may* have saved more lives if we really wanted to have them formally declare defeat, and we were salty over Pearl Harbor.To end on a light note:[MEDIA=youtube]1JEY24tPHOk[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ItalianStallion9, post: 1491143, member: 13962"] The older I've gotten the less I've approved of it. While I wonder why we targeted civilians, my viewpoint is that it seemed to be more of a statement; the allied powers wanted to see a white flag waived. If our goal is to make sure all enemies surrender, why are we foolin' around with North Korea. Why not just nuke them? We had the power to nuke Japan at the time, with little consequences (ie: china/russia lashback), and we wanted to make a statement of power victory. It appears evident that Germany and Italy were out of the war...so Japan was some little island by themselves. Was it really necessary to drop nukes on them at this point? It's simliar to modern day North Korea at this point. That being said, I've heard and agree with some of the points for nuking. Many wanted the war to be officially over, it *may* have saved more lives if we really wanted to have them formally declare defeat, and we were salty over Pearl Harbor. To end on a light note: [MEDIA=youtube]1JEY24tPHOk[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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